Location: McDonough 068 Phone: 304.243.2182 Email: AT@wju.edu

Athletic Training Education Program Mission Statement

Wheeling Jesuit University’s Athletic Training Education Program as a subsidiary of the Department of Athletic Training has a mission which is to reinforce the University’s mission of educating young men and women for life, leadership, and service with and among others. In addition the ATEP mission is to provide an exciting, educational, nurturing, and caring environment in which the student will learn skills such as problem-solving, critical thinking, communication, professionalism and respect for others while integrating the necessary professional, educational and clinical skills of an athletic trainer in accordance with the six practice domains of (a) prevention, (b) clinical evaluation and diagnosis, (c) immediate care, (d) treatment, rehabilitation and reconditioning, (e) organization and administration, and (f) professional responsibility, with an ultimate goal of becoming an allied health care professional who will feel confident and comfortable providing the safest and best possible care to physically active individuals.